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U.S. - Mexico at a Glance
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Mission Mexico has
the largest consular operation in the world, with over one million legal
border crossings daily, one million American citizens resident in Mexico
and over twelve million American citizens visiting Mexico for business
or tourism each year.
U.S. Citizen
Consular Services
About 20,000 American citizens came to the Embassy or one of its nine
consulates and fourteen consular agencies in Mexico for assistance during
the past year. Services provided include passport issuance, reports
of birth and death, notarizations, and others. The Embassy also provides
assistance in case of natural disasters, and in the past few years has
responded to numerous hurricanes and tropical storms. For example, when
Hurricane Wilma hit the Yucatan Peninsula in 2005, Consular Officers
assisted over 35,000 American citizens affected by the hurricane.
Visa Services
to the Mexican Public
In the fiscal year ending September 2007, Mission Mexico processed applications
for 1,300,000 non-immigrant visas (visitor, student, temporary work,
and other categories) and 86,000 immigrant visas.
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average, consular officers in Embassy Mexico City alone interviewed
over 2,000 applicants per day in FY2007.
• The Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez processes all
immigrant visas in Mexico. In 2008 with a new building, will be
the largest consulate in the world with 109 interview windows.
• The majority of H2 (temporary worker) visas processed
by the State Dept. worldwide are issued in Mexico – about 140,000
each year.
• The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) has
increased passport workload by an average of 54% across Mexico.
• Mission Mexico expects 5.6 million visas renewals
in 2008-2011.
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